What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.

Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.